Joan Theresa Garrity (born January 15, 1934 [1] ) is an American author, best known as the author of The Sensuous Woman .
Joan Theresa Garrity (born January 15, 1934 [1] ) is an American author, best known as the author of The Sensuous Woman .
Garrity was raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri, [2] and studied at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. She worked on the staff of publisher Lyle Stuart and published a book about shopping in New York.
In 1969 she published, under the pseudonym of "J.", The Sensuous Woman, subtitled "the first how-to book for the female who yearns to be all woman". It was also published as The Way to Become the Sensuous Woman. The book spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and nearly a year on the list overall. [3] In later editions, she used the name Terry Garrity. A spoken-word record album was made in 1969, based on the book, called J – The Way To Become A Sensuous Woman. [4] [5]
In 1977, she published Total Loving: how to love and be loved for the rest of your life, and in 1984, Story of "J": the author of The Sensuous Woman tells the bitter price of her crazy success, with her brother John Garrity as co-author. In this book she and her brother discuss how she coped with depression. [6]
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